Метеонимы в Белозерских говорах
The Group of Мeteonym’s in Belozersk District Dialects

Summary/Abstract: The fact that the words nominating natural phenomena belong to the basic vocabulary of the language, explains the importance of studying this layer of Lexis. Meteorological Lexis is one of the major thematic groups nominating natural and geographical peculiarities of a region. The article deals with the meteonyms belonging to the integral seme “horizontal air movement above the earth surface”. The group of meteonyms under study contains the names of winds used in Belozersk district dialects. The author touches upon the problems of the meteonyms semantics and their nomination indexes. Other problems under consideration are the area the meteonyms are spread in Belozersk district and comparative analyses of Belozersk district dialect with those of the White Sea and Ladoga Lake districts.

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